18th Birthday present for daughter........

[ttcycle]

Not forgetting a flat cap as well !


I'd try the new shoes bait.

When my daughter graduated I said to her 'what would as a little present' hoping she ask for something like a pair of shoes. She replied 'how about a trip to New York'. The credit card gets bigger and bigger

Oh dear you walked right into that one!!


I was going to suggest a smoking jacket to go with the pipe and slippers

 

[thomas]

Go for it. A mate and I bought big Cuban cigars when we were 16/17 (legal then....I think)...and had them. Spent about 4 hours smoking them, but I don't smoke and haven't started because of it.

Had the odd puff now and again, but usually after a few drinks and generally just start coughing and realise why I don't smoke

Probably will get some cigars for graduation though....but yeah, go for it, if you don't think she'll start smoking because of it then go for it....or get a bubble one cos I had one and loved it when I was a kid

 

[vernon]

Don't forget a flat cap too!

She's got one already.

 

[ttcycle]

Go for it. A mate and I bought big Cuban cigars when we were 16/17 (legal then....I think)...

They're legal in this country- it's only in the US that they're illegal due to the trade embargo, unless I am mistaken.

 

[vernon]

They're legal in this country- it's only in the US that they're illegal due to the trade embargo, unless I am mistaken.

I think the legality was linked to age. You have to be eighteen now to be able to buy smoking related products.

 

[thomas]

They're legal in this country- it's only in the US that they're illegal due to the trade embargo, unless I am mistaken.

I meant smoking age...this was a few years ago

And yes, this was from a cigar shop so def legal (near Sainsbury's HQ)....we had some IT talk (school trip) near by and during a break my entire class went and bough cigars, haha.

 

[slowmotion]

She will need a cardigan with leather-covered buttons and pipe-sized pockets at stomach level, and a few pipe cleaners, and a box of Swan Vestas. You may as well go the whole hog...

...and then there's the tobacco to consider...some poncy Dutch aromatic stuff or a peat coloured Black Shag that has Greenpeace at your door within a minute.
It won't be easy.

 

[Bromptonaut]

And yes, this was from a cigar shop so def legal (near Sainsbury's HQ)..

Sadly, Shervingtons shut up shop last October. One of the few places that had been almost totally unchanged in my 32 years working in 'Legal London'

 

[Amheirchion]

Not to mention learning to pack the pipe and light it correctly. It can make all the difference between feeling like you're trying to suck a rugby ball through a straw and getting a clear drag (followed by choking if inhaled, don't inhale, just taste).

 

[slowmotion]

Bad news about Shervingtons. I did some work in the Science Reference Library many decades ago, and it was just down the road. They had a sign in the window ..."Thank-you for smoking".

It seems you can still get all the gear at on-line sites like this..

http://www.uktobacco.com/

I love the warning before you can actually enter the site...

"This site contains images of tobacco. If you are under 18 then please leave now."

 

[vernon]

I've added a Zippo to the package.

My daughter share's my passion for all things incendiary.

 

[darkstar]

The thought of an 18 year old girl smoking a pipe is pretty funny tbh, certainly a present she'll remember.

 

[Brains]

Capstan full strength tobacco - it should put her off

 

[Amheirchion]

Zippo's are pretty horrible for lighting pipes, matches are your best bet, or a torch lighter. A normal lighter also works, but not a zippo as it's almost impossible to direct the flame to the tobacco from my experience.

I'm going to have to get some more pipe tobacco now.

 

[ufkacbln]

AN eighteen year old who wants a good shag for her birthday?

Sherlock Holmes used to keep McClelland Black in the toe of a Persian Slipper attached to his mantlepiece